Chapter 42 Chapter Fifteen
Dongchenggen in Chongwenmen was originally a quiet place amidst the hustle and bustle. It was first built in the Zhaoning Temple in the Yuan Dynasty on a small street here.This street is called Zhaoning Temple Street.The south side of the street is called Gouyantou, and the north side is called downtown.There are various alleys from Gouyantou to the east, the one to the south is called Maojiawan, the one to the east is called Drawer Alley, and the one to the east is called Shenlu Street.The south side of Drawer Alley is called the Armor Factory, the north side is the Horse Factory, and the east side is Broad Street.There is a plum bamboo alley to the west of the horse factory.From Maojiawan to the north is called a well, and then there is the Bell Courtyard.The east side of downtown is called Suzhou Hutong Downhill, adjacent to it is Jiangan Hutong, and from there to the east is called Blacksmith Camp and Tofu Lane.From these place names alone, it can be roughly known that most of the people living in this area are traffickers, servants, servants, Zaolihuo and other servants of various religions and ranks.Most of the refugees from various prefectures, prefectures and counties who came to Beijing for food also lived here.It is said to be noisy because of the bustling popularity every day.It is said to be quiet because it is much inferior to Qipan Street and Dengshikou commercial streets where every inch of land is expensive.However, there is also a place to go here, not only in Beijing, but also in the whole country, and that is Yaozi Street, which is located in the middle of Suzhou Hutong Downhill and Jiangan Hutong. As the name suggests, Yaozi Street is a romantic place where private men and wild women have sexual intercourse.It was originally a gap between two alleys.During the Jiajing period, a Kaifeng man who had worked in the capital for many years and had become a Passepartout built a few adobe houses here, and got a few beggar girls to do skin and meat business.How many years have passed, kilns opened one after another, and this place has become a street of flowers and willows.The street is not long, but there are more than 30 shops, and none of them are engaged in other businesses. All Qi Qier owns are kilns.The number of prostitutes in these kilns ranged from a dozen to dozens or even hundreds.There are generally three sources of prostitutes: one is defrauded from the countryside, the other is bought from the population market, and the third is sheltered beggar girls.The prostitutes who patronize Yaozi Street, commonly known as "injection" in the capital, come from all kinds of people, but most of them are common people of low status. Now is the autumn tiger season when the two ends are cold and the middle is hot, and the capital has not rained for a long time.In the rain this afternoon, although it fell hard over the Forbidden City, the ground here didn't even get wet.The uneven dirt road in Yaozi Street is still as hard as copper.If pedestrians walk on it, if they are not careful, they will either sprain their feet or kick their toes and bleed.It was just after You Hour, and I saw a person looking around from the downhill direction of Suzhou Hutong into Yaozi Street facing the scorching sunset. The kiln's business has always been prosperous after the sun sets, but at this time, even though the sun is still stumbling on the willow branches at the street intersection, it only needs a loud cough to shake it down. Behind the gray roof.The man who walked into the street looked to be about twenty-three or twenty-four years old. Although he was fair and clean, he was small in stature, with a pair of small round eyes embedded in his flat forehead, and two eyeballs the size of soybeans. Into a lot of yellow.At this time, he was wearing a blue linen straight gown that had been washed clean, a pair of half-new cloth shoes on his feet, and playing with a folding fan in his hand, but he walked dishonestly, jumping up and down, One can tell at a glance that it is a white wave without four or two prudence. However, as soon as Bailang stepped into Yaozi Street, the whole street suddenly became excited.Not for anything else, just for his "sister-in-law" attire.The clients who come to Yaozi Street are usually shirtless and sweaty. There are even lame, blind, hunchback and beggars. I have never seen such a white-skinned young man who is covered in a long gown.Immediately, Xu Niang's servants standing in front of the doors of various kilns soliciting customers all swarmed to greet them. "Young master, you have a high step, and there is a ridge under your feet."
"Master, you lean this way, there is a shade under the tree.""Hey, what a gentleman, take a look, it is more comfortable than drinking a bowl of ice water.""Hi, Come, my lord, all the young ladies in our family are eyelid-twitching, Lord, just stay here, please stop." Facing this twittering flattery, Bailang's yellow eyeballs spun faster than a spinning top.He put his hands back and played with the folding fan with two fingers, with a look of disdain, and he finally stood still when he heard that Xu Niang asked him to stop, and when he opened his mouth, he could hear the Beijing accent from Zhejiang: "Are you the proprietress of this house?"
"Well, my surname is Xia, and everyone on the street calls me Xia Po."
"Well, Xia Po. You asked me to stay up, do you have any good products?"
"Yes, Lord, you can look at it yourself."
Xiapo scratched her head, twisted her waist and stretched her orchid fingers.Bailang followed her fingers and saw a plaque hanging on the door, called "Street Fragrance".Next to the door was a large window, papered shut.Bailang stretched his head to look inside the door, and saw that it was an entrance hall with a few wooden chairs and tea tables, and there was a door behind it, which was ajar, so there was no sign of anything. "Master, look here."
Xia Po, who had already followed quickly, opened the window in a hurry.Bailang turned around and stuck his head through the window, he was dumbfounded.Inside the room, there were more than a dozen naked girls sitting loosely. The girls are big and small, ugly and beautiful, fat and thin, tall and short.No one felt shy when they saw someone poking their head in. They all hurriedly got up from the long bench they were sitting on, and swarmed naked to the window. "Master, you want me."
An older girl in her twenties spoke first.Her face was a little blue, and the only thing that looked good was the pair of bulging tits, but her lower abdomen was already slack.Bailang's thieves glanced at her, and suddenly felt the thing in his crotch stiffen, so he stretched out his hand and pressed it down.Subconsciously, he nestled his waist back again, then stretched out the folding fan and poked the girl's tits. "So-so, just old." He said lewdly and critically. Before the words were finished, another girl with shaved shoulders rushed forward, half provocatively half serious, and said: "Master, I'm a newcomer, and I'm tenderer than a spring onion." Bailang gave him a sharp look, his face and figure were still well-proportioned, but a little dry.The girls could see from his eyes that he was still dissatisfied, so they rushed forward to recommend him.Xu Niang, who was standing beside Bailang, slapped her hands.The girls immediately fell silent, and Xia Po reprimanded: "Look, here comes a God of Wealth, and everyone is vying for it. Where are the rules? Is it the guests picking you, or you picking the guests? Hmm? Stand back and follow the regulations." After this scolding, the girls became honest.Back up to the base of the wall and stand still.Xia Po gestured to them again.The girls went to the window one by one.Every girl has to perform a few provocative moves in front of Bailang, showing off her big breasts, fat buttocks, jade neck and slender waist.There was really nothing to show, so he held onto his hand and cast a hopeful look at Bailang.Bailang spent his eye addiction obsessively for a while, the girls had retreated to sit on the stool, but he was still motionless like a wooden stake.Xia Po stretched out her hand and lightly poked his waist, and asked in a low voice: "Master, who are you looking for?"
"Ah!" Bailang woke up like a dream.She bared her teeth and said with a smile: "You old lady, these girls, I smell like a fox." "Oh, see what your master said," Xia Po shoved Bai Lang With one hand, he said flirtatiously, "This smell is the real smell of Yaozi Street. Without this foxy smell, what is it called Yaozi Street!" It's getting cooler, and there are more and more tourists on the street.It can be seen that some of these people are regular customers, and some are newcomers just like this Bailang.Most of the regular customers have their own old friends, and as soon as they enter Yaozi Street, they dig their heads and go straight to their target.Newcomers are afraid of losing money, so they always want to go from house to house to pick the best one.That's what this Bailang has in mind right now.He patted the back of Xia Po's hand with the fan bone, and said with a smile: "Xia Po, I want to see other houses."
"Master, as the saying goes, if you walk too much, your feet will hurt, and if you watch too much, you will miss your eyes. My girls, you have already seen, all of them are delicate, watery, white and greasy, and charming. In a word , are the best on Yaozi Street." Bailang laughed and said jokingly: "As the saying goes, Wang Po sells melons and boasts about herself, but now Xia Po sells flowers and boasts about herself. I believe what you say, but I still shop around. It's better." After finishing speaking, Bailang walked away.All of a sudden, I heard a sharp cry, "Tiao Lianer ——", it turned out that the soliciting boy from the neighbor's house who had been standing by the side picking up his ears had already jumped to his own door and propped up a carved fir tree lined with white gauze. In front of the window, Bailang took a look, and found that the general situation of the family he had just seen was similar.It turns out that all the kilns in Yaozi Street have roughly the same architectural pattern.On the side of the main entrance facing the street, there must be a big and wide window, and inside the window is a big wing room, in which the girls stay naked.Usually the windows are closed, and when a customer comes, the soliciting guy in front of the store will prop up the window and let the customer pick the goods.
Bailang looked at each family like this, and unconsciously passed more than half an hour.At this time, the rays of the sun fade away, and the dusk gradually thickens.At the entrance of each kiln, red gauze lanterns with shop numbers written on them were lit up.This Bailang walked from the street to the end of the street. Although he feasted his eyes and admired the bodies of all kinds of young women for free, he still didn't find any that he liked.This is probably the reason that Xu Niang said her eyes were blurred.At this time, there were more and more clients coming to Yaozi Street, and a group of people gathered at the door of almost every brothel to choose goods. Bailang was the first to come, but he still hadn't found one yet, so he couldn't help but feel flustered.He couldn't help speeding up his pace, and hurried back to the first kiln he saw on the street. "Yo, the uncle is back."
The Xia Po who was leaning leisurely at the door took a step forward to say hello, but her tone was no longer as enthusiastic as before.Looking under the window, there are no crowds. "Look, your business is slower than other houses." Bailang struck up a conversation, stretched his head to look at the wing room, but there was no one there, "Huh, where is anyone?""Everyone is in the room." Xia Po agreed.
"Is there not one left?"
"There's not one left!" Xia Po squinted at Bailang, pouted her mouth, and said angrily, "Who told you to pick and choose, in the end you can only put your ears on the window sill.""What do you say? ?”
"Listen to the sound!"
"Bah, sir, I don't believe in this evil."
Bailang lowered his face, smashed the folding fan into his palm, then hurriedly turned around and walked into the street. "Where is the uncle going?"
"Look again."
"Come back," Xia Po took a step forward to hold Bailang, and smiled again on her face covered with makeup, "I don't even look at the time, what else can I find now, is it a man with three legs or a man with four legs?" Toad?" "You Xia Po, it seems that you are going to deliberately play tricks on me." Bailang frowned with two sparse eyebrows, and he was really angry like that.Xia Po is guarding the door every day. What kind of person has you never seen?So I don't care about it, I just stopped joking, but lowered my voice, and said mysteriously: "It can be seen that this is the first time for you to come to Yaozi Street. I can't pick a single flower. Come, uncle, come with me." After saying that, Po Xia did not allow Bailang to agree, so she took Bailang's hand, walked into her kiln in three steps, and walked through the hall to the backyard , went to the innermost room and pushed the door open, inside it was dark and cold and couldn't see clearly, Xu Niang shouted: "Zao Nier, hold the lamp."
No one responded.
Xiapo had to fumble by herself to light up a tung oil lamp on the small table in front of the kang.The light was like beans, Bailang blinked his eyes for a few times before he adjusted.I saw a girl sitting on the kang with her face facing inward, her hands wrapped around her knees, her head bowed and she ignored people. "Zao Nier, turn your head around." Shouted Xia Po.
The girl was like a wooden person, sitting there still motionless. "Yo, she can still put on airs." Bailang said.
"If you search all over the capital, you can't find anyone who looks better than her. Look at her, she has a small nose, a small round mouth, onion-like fingers and a face like melon seeds. She looks like a noble concubine in the palace. It's also inferior to the comparison." Xia Po kept nagging with her sweat towel in her hands, Bailang walked into the kang and stretched out her hand to turn the girl's head over to have a look, she was indeed beautiful.
"I didn't see her in the front room just now." Bailang said.
"She's the oiran of our family, so there's no need to go to the front," Xia Po's tone was full of showing off, and then she yelled at the kang, "Zao Ni'er, it's a son. "
Zao Nier's shoulder moved slightly, but she still did not look up.
Xia Po pulled Bailang out of the room, closed the door, and said softly: "This Zao Nier is too high-minded, and ordinary guests look down on her.""Yes, look at her face She’s always hung up on frost, and she doesn’t like sex at all.” “If you want to make her happy, it’s up to you, Mr. Xia.” Granny Xia urged, “If you have the ability, let her do it. If you don’t have the skills, go find rotten shrimp.” “If you want to eat any rotten shrimp, you can eat this swan.”
Bai Lang was talking about smashing the folding fan, and was about to open the door to go in again. Xia Po stopped him and asked: "Master, you're new here, do you know the price?" "Ah, what's the price, what do you think?" Here is the old rule, nailing once, fifteen copper coins."
Bailang's little yellow eyes stared, and he said in a bluffing voice: "You are deceiving the old man, you are new here, are you? On Yaozi Street, you can hit a nail with seven cents, who are you cheating?" At the end, Xia Po didn't argue, just replied with a smile: "Master, you are a sensible person, but the price of jujube is different."
"How much?"
"One tael of silver."
"Is Zao Ni'er's hair gold or silver? It's worth so much?" Xia Po looked at the door, lowered her voice and said, "Zao Nier is still a girl, she has not broken me." "Ah? No wonder she is so shy." Bailang was startled, and smiled at Xia Po, "If it's as you said, one tael is one tael." After finishing speaking, he didn't have time to argue with Xia Po, and he pushed the door and entered the room again. The girl's sitting posture has not changed, she is still molded there.
Bai Lang heard Xia Po's footsteps walking away, so he locked the door, moved closer to the kang, and called softly, "Zao, Zao Nier?" The girl slowly turned her face and replied: "My name is not Zao Nier." "Then what is your name?"
"It's called Yuniang."
"Yu Niang?" Bai Lang grinned, "This name is too elegant, I don't dare to do anything after hearing this, it's better to be Zao Nier." To push him, although she was close at hand, her hand was empty. Seeing that something was wrong, Bai Lang stretched out his hand and shook it in front of Yuniang's eyes, but there was no response. "Hey, are you blind?" Bailang asked.
Yu Niang nodded, and saw two lines of tears streaming from her eyes.
It turned out that on that day, Yuniang heard the news and rushed to Jingnan Station to return to her hometown with Gao Gong. After being rejected by Gao Gong, she was ashamed and hated. However, his eyes were blurred because of this, and after about a month, he went blind in both eyes.She stayed alone in the capital, and after all she couldn't do anything, so she decided to return to her hometown in Nanjing, so she asked people to find a car and hire a boat.Yesterday, the person she entrusted brought someone here, and that person said that he wanted to take her to see the boats at the Zhangjiawan Canal Wharf in Tongzhou.Without thinking about it, Yuniang followed the man into the donkey cart and made three turns and nine turns. The man dragged her to Yaozi Street and sold her to Po Xia for ten taels of silver.Since entering the brothel, Yu Niang shouted that she should not answer every day, and that the ground was not working.Xia Po wanted her to pick up the guests, but Yu Niang swore she would die.Xia Po was afraid that she would really commit suicide and lose ten taels of silver for nothing, so she didn't dare to force her. She only wanted to find a client with a sweet mouth and tricks, so that she could convince Yuniang to make it happen.As long as the daughter's family passes that level, things will be easy in the future.It was this idea that made Xia Po take a fancy to Bailang. But he said that Bailang felt a little pity in his heart when he heard Yuniang crying about being cheated.But he couldn't hold back the lust that he had held back for a long time, and while Yu Niang was not paying attention, he stretched out his hand to Yu Niang's tits to grab a handful. Based on feeling, Yu Niang knew that there was a black hand reaching out. Although she was blind, she was not limping or limp, but she was still very flexible. She turned her body and suddenly knelt down on the kang, begging with tears: "Brother kindly, please be merciful and don't bully me, a weak woman. If you can rescue me, I will be grateful."
"How to save you?" Bailang asked.
"Report to the Yamen and let the government know."
"How can you thank me?"
"Although my family is alone in Beijing, I still have little travel funds. As long as I can return to my residence safely, I will give you one hundred taels of silver.""One hundred taels of silver? Do you have it?" Bailang asked in surprise.
"Yes, I have."
The more earnestly Yuniang answered, the more unbelieving Bailang was.He thought to himself: "If you are so rich, you won't be tricked into this kind of place." So he wanted to take advantage even more, and he said with a lewd smile: "Zao Nier, I don't want your hundred dollars either." Two silvers, as long as you promise me one thing, I will help you deliver the letter to the government.”“Which thing?”
Yu Niang held her head up, "looking" at Bailang eagerly.Seeing Yuniang's natural beauty and exhalation, Bailang couldn't hold back anymore. He put his head close to Yuniang's ear and whispered: "Now you can sleep with our uncle."
"This will not work."
"Why not?"
Bailang ignored Yuniang's objection, and threw himself on his body as he spoke, and immediately pressed Yuniang under him.One hand wrapped around Yu Niang's neck, and the other hand stretched out to fumble around.Yu Niang resisted desperately, tearing and biting.While dodging and moving, Bailang couldn't use his strength.The two sides tore like this for a while, and they were both out of breath.Bailang was about to touch the root of Yu Niang's thigh with one hand. In desperation, Yu Niang bit Bailang's other arm hard with her mouth. Come down to the kang.Taking advantage of this time, Yuniang stood up quickly, took two steps back and stood close to the corner of the wall, and took out an object from her bosom with one hand, Bailang saw that it was a pair of scissors. It turns out that since Yuniang lost her eyesight, she has always kept a pair of scissors hidden in case of accidents.Although Bailang is easy to take advantage of, he is a silver-like spear head after all. When he saw the scissors, he took a step back involuntarily, and muttered: "Look, it's a pleasure, but you look like you have fallen for it." Kill the field." After two days of torture, Yuniang was already exhausted, and she was exhausted after the fight just now, but she still held on tenaciously, holding the scissors tightly and said: "If you dare to take another step forward, you will die or I will die!"
Seeing her righteous and awe-inspiring attitude, Bailang was angry and hated, but he didn't dare to do anything wrong again, so he had to slam "Bah", opened the door, and walked away resentfully.